Sky customers may have to say goodbye to Eurosport and other Discovery channels this week.

During the Australian Open tennis final (January 29), Eurosport confirmed on screen that it will be removed from Sky services from Wednesday (February 1) over a recent financial dispute.

Last week, Discovery threatened to pull its programming from Sky, claiming that the media giant "refuses to pay a fair price" and that tense negotiations between the two have reached an "impasse".

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Discovery has also claimed that Sky has been paying less than it did 10 years ago and it could therefore pull its 12 channels, including TLC, Animal Planet and Eurosport "after 31st January".

Sky then hit back by accusing the broadcaster of "misleading claims" in a statement on Friday (January 27).

"Sadly we have now had to prepare for Discovery to take their channels away from Sky customers, as they have threatened to do," a Sky spokesperson said.

"It is Discovery's choice to do this, not ours. We never left the negotiating table and they haven't come back to it since they made their threats public this week. Sky doesn't boot channels off our platform."

However, Discovery is still urging its fans to get in touch with Sky to hopefully get the channels to stay on the service: "Humbled by your support, we can't reply to all but keep making your voice heard!"